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Semi-retired engineer. Experience: oil, chemicals, pharma, minerals, foods. Ex-USAF: Aerospace R&D; projects, explosives. Rebel, innovator, data geek, active progressive, trouble-maker my whole life; atheist-- extreme anti-evangelist; farmer; journalist.

"A core feature of the modern GOP is the party’s open and obvious disdain for democracy." Source: By permission of Mike Luckovich and Creators Syndicate and Daily Kos, Lisa Needham

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The gaslighting is off the charts with this one. Every word is a lie. His actual approval rating is the second worst in modern presidential history, behind only Nixon’s 24% just before he resigned.

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Do more than make it hurt. While republicans helped Trump, Inc. gut the government & rob it. Corporate democrats, the loyal opposition, did nothing, or little. Support progressive candidates who at least have solutions and will fight.

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Corporate spending on elections has already topped $500 million this year. That's one third of the $1.58 billion in total that corporations have spent since Citizens United in 2010. Hawaii and Montana both have plans to neutralize this disastrous SCOTUS ruling. Other states must get on board.

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“The president and first lady seemed totally unfazed about whether there was an abuser—another abuser—in their workplace. There was no follow-up from either of them to see if I needed help or protection. There was no investigation ordered. No effort to get to the bottom of this ....

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Anti-ICE advocates rallied outside the DHS office near Cincinnati after Haitians losing TPS were summoned for mandatory check-ins. Protesters report officials are fitting people with ankle monitors and issuing new court dates. Community members stand united against these aggressive tactics!

So Tillis and Cornyn’s position is that the slush fund and IRS immunity is disgusting, illegal, immoral, and unethical but they are willing to confirm the man who agreed to it as Attorney General of the United States as long as he takes it back.